A group of 20 young people from the Archdiocese of Tuam recently visited Clare Island.
Month: October 2013
Dublin conference on Traveller inclusion
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin launches the ‘Embracing Inclusion’ conference on the pastoral care of Travellers
The hope of healing and the charity of care
Peter CostelloCaring for the Nation: A History of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, by Sr Eugene Nolan (Gill & Macmillan, €29.99 / £26.99)
What coalition costs us all
The Price of Power: Inside Ireland’s Crisis Coalition, by Pat Leahy (Penguin Ireland, €17.99 / £14.99; ebook €9.99)
Big music and major debates
Brendan O’ReganTelevised debates dominated ahead of the Seanad Referendum, writes Brendan O’Regan
A Canon of rich literature
Peter Costello profiles a forgotten novelist of Catholic Ireland
Voice for the invisible
Sister Clare O’Mahony tells Martin O’Brien about being the face of Christ to prostitutes
Is Pope Francis akin to Italy’s Monarch?
Mary KennyPope Francis is developing the kind of persona, for the Italians, that a much-loved monarch can represent, writes Mary Kenny
Govt ‘lack of political will’ on child protection condemned
Paul Keenan‘Every Child Matters’ just empty rhetoric – academic
NI pro-lifers urge Minister to open perinatal hospices
Cathal BarryHealth officials say they are considering the case of a woman who went from Northern Ireland to England for an abortion because she was told her baby had no chance of survival